The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-11-04

W.P. Alsipand ]. H. Hill asrives at
Grand Forks having Mr. Alsip's little
DAUGHTER, who was abducted by her
mother and taken to Fergus Fails. 1t
WAS found necessary to sue out writ
OF habeas corpus to recover the child,
A Finlander named William Gabriel.
son, who owned a farm east of Fred.
erick fell from load OF grain and was
crushed to death.
Mrs. Henry Newton. one OF the old
settlers IN Wolsey county, is dead.
The date OF the meeting of the stock
breeders' association. which was fixed
at the Mitchell fair for Oct. 25. has
been changed TO Nov. rs. The meet
ing will be held in jamestown and
promises to bring together quite q
number of stocSmen.
At the city election held at Devils
Lake, the Citizens ticket, with A. c.
Hansborough for mayor, was elected
without opposition. The ci.izens
turned out with band and serenaded
the first mayor the city has ever had.
At the Methodist conference at Far
go, the committee on college reported
and recommended that the institution
be located somewhere in the Red Riv-
er Valley-either in Dakota or Min
nesota-with the understanding that
no other similar institution shall be
established within the next ten years,
! and a committee of five be appoint
ed to confer with q like committee
from the Minnesota conference in re.
gard to the selection OF q site. Fargo
and Moorhead are the only places
spoken OF as q location for the school.
The report was accepted.
Several cases OF claim jumping un-
der the recent decision ofthe secretary
OF the interior with regard TO indemni.
ty lands, have been reported at Car
rington north of jamestown. Two
sections beloneing to Elliott Smith cf
New York have been squatted upon,
and several other pieces have been
shacked. Some interest ng litigation
ts promised if this continues.
Charles A. Wilson, stenographer
with the law firm of Dillon & Preston,
and Miss Minnie Brokaw OF Mitchell,
were quietly married at Alexandria
recently. The parents OF the bride
knew nothing OF the wedding, although
there was no objection to it, the
couple having been engaged for some
time.
G. A. Weller, who was register OF
the land Office at Yankton from Sept.
1875 to July /, 1886, and for twelve
years editor and publisher Of the Free
Press, an influential German paper,
died of apoplexy. He was among the
most talented and influential German
citizens. He served in the Forty.fifth
Wisconsin regiment in the civil war
and was mustered out q lieutenant.
He had but recently returned from
Europe.
| A slide Of rock on 100 feet OF leve.
OF the Iron Hill mine, at Deadwood,
brought down ore o: the estimated
value OF one hundred thousand dol
lars. Assays are said to give q re:
turn OF one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars per ton and it Is be-
lieved that q verv large body exists
which will reach that value.
One Of the boilers In Sioux Falls gas
works exploded. jarring the entire city.
There were two men in the building at
the time and they escaped without
injury, although uhe building was
thoroughly demolished. Ogden Bar.
rett, m old man who was driving q
horse in the vicinity, was seriously in
iured,
The Northern Pacific, La Moure &
Missouri railroad, an extension OF the
Fargo q southwestern. has been com.
pleted as lar as Fdgely. and will be
operated to that point after Nov. l. {